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Security clearance only because president trump intervened and ordered a security clearance for his son-in-law, jared kushner, something the president has repeatedly publicly denied that he did. >> theres been a story in the news in the last two weeks about your son-in-laws security clearance. >> yeah. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule security officials, the career veterans? >> no. i dont think i have the authority to do that. im not sure i do. >> you d...

Case here, if a case is to be had. we cant ignore criminal activity. but remember, this is the first public hearing, the first. it has to be a process. when we look back at watergate, that was almost a two-year process and it worked. it persuaded the american people that the person they put faith in didnt deserve it. >> leading off our discussion now, democratic congressman lloyd doggett of texas, also with us former federal prosecutor, barbara mcquade and jill wine-banks, a former assistant wat...

About that. >> was the president involved in the clearance products? >> we dont discuss security cleanses. but the president has the right to do what was described. >> jared kushners lawyer, abbe lowell, issued this statement, quote, whatever the accuracy or not of recent news stories, mr. lowell was not aware of, nor told of any request for or action by the president to be involved in the security clearance process. again, officials affirmed at the time that the regular process occurred without...

Involvement in getting jared kushner security clearance. he had a number of issues on his security clearance form where he did not have access to certain people, and he should not have security clearance. he said he was trying to secure middle east peace, but a lot of people wonder if hes just trying to get a piece of the action. >> as you prioritize what you want to hear about, what you want to investigate, does this hold the level that you might want to hold a hearing on this, that you might i...

Revoked during a review of procedures and later restored in may. times reports that then chief of staff john kelly wrote an internal memo saying he was ordered to grant kushner top secret clearance. just a month ago, the president insisted that wasnt the case. >> did you tell anyone else in the white house to -- security officials? the career veterans? >> no. i dont think i have the authority to do that. but i wouldnt do it. >> reporter: "the washington post" reports his daughter pressured her f...

Terms of leading us down this particular path, but just two weeks ago we launched a huge investigation with chairman cummings leadership to basically unravel this nuclear secret scandal with saudi arabia. there, as you might recall, jared kushner tried to rush secret -- nuclear secrets of america to saudi arabia in return for billions of dollars in contracts that would have gone to companies that are connected to jared kushner. so thats kind of why its so important for us to get to the bottom of...

Different things. and i was actually impressed. >> so, jon, the president now goes home to deal with this summit collapse and with michael cohen. >> reporter: in fact, david, michael cohen spent another eight hours on capitol hill behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee today. he will be back again next week and, of course, cohen has revealed that there are further criminal investigations from the southern district of new york, the u.s. attorney there. the bottom line, david, t...

Security rules. and these are ethics rules are there to protect the national security, and this is a startling example of it, that you waive the normal ethics rules. you waive the normal disclosure rules, form filling out paperwork rules and the result is that the president of the united states has to personally intervene to give his son-in-law a security clearance that hes not entitled to and then, of course, lie about it. >> so mika, i want to go back to what ben said about the undisclosed for...

Son-in-law jared kushner a top security clearance over the objections of intelligence officials, a move that john kelly found so troubling at the time that he wrote a memo about it specifying that jared kushner got his security clearance only at the order of president trump. then white house counsel don mcgahn wrote a similar memo according to the "new york times." heres what president trump said last month when asked by the "new york times" about whether he interfered in the security clearance ...